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  • Title: Kinetic analysis of the interaction of tissue transglutaminase with a nonpeptidic slow-binding inhibitor.
    Author: Case A, Stein RL.
    Journal: Biochemistry; 2007 Jan 30; 46(4):1106-15. PubMed ID: 17240993.
    Abstract:
    Tissue transglutaminase (TGase) is a Ca2+-dependent enzyme that catalyzes cross-linking of intracellular proteins through a mechanism that involves isopeptide bond formation between Gln and Lys residues and is allosterically regulated by GTP. TGase is thought to play a pathogenic role in neurodegenerative diseases by promoting aggregation of disease-specific proteins that accumulate as part of these disorders. Given the role that TGase plays in neurodegenerative disorders, we initiated a research program to discover inhibitors of this enzyme that might ultimately be developed into therapeutic agents. To identify such inhibitors, we screened 110,000 druglike compounds for their ability to inhibit TGase [Case, A., et al. (2005) Anal. Biochem. 338, 237-244]. In this paper, we report the kinetics of interaction of human TGase with one of the inhibitors that we identified, LDN-27219. We found that this compound is a reversible, slow-binding inhibitor that appears not to bind at the enzyme's active site but rather at the enzyme's GTP site, or a site that regulates binding of GTP. Interestingly, the potency and kinetics of inhibition are dependent on substrate structure and suggest a novel mechanism of inhibition that involves differential binding of LDN-27219 to multiple conformational states of this enzyme.
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